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[ This has been posted on Gentoo User, |
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but in case it hasn't been seen by discussants at Gentoo Dev, here it is. |
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It seems clear upstream isn't dead, simply quiet ] |
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On 1/28/23 05:35, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> I'm actually the one who first heard that the original maintainer had died. |
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> I had written to him about some support issue, and got a belated reply |
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> from his brother. Upstream is not dead at all, |
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> the activity level is just fairly low. |
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> I tried to post to -dev, but my message never got through, |
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> not sure if it's because I'm not a dev or made some other error in sending. |
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> The homepage is at htttps://gkrellm.srcbox.net |
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> with source at https://git.srcbox.net/gkrellm/gkrellm. |
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> The main problem is that is still uses gtk+2. |
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> They do have an open issue about that, |
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> but most of the discussion has been on why it would be so hard to upgrade. |
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> There is apparently a lot of fairly low-level graphics stuff going on |
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> and Bill himself (the original maintainer) |
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> said something like the conversion to gkt+3 would be difficult, |
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> but to go to gtk+4 would essentially be a re-write. |
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> Jack |
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